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Quotes About Solitude

The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
~ Lemmy
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
~ Billie Holiday
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
~ Alonzo Church
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
~ Vanilla Ice
I don't exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me.
~ Quique Setien
I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.
~ Andie MacDowell
I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise.
~ Roz Chast
A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.
~ Howard Jacobson
It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.
~ Tim Cope
I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, no calamities, no children that have to be attended to.
~ Kelsey Grammer
There were times when I just couldn't be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much for me.
~ Ryan Mason
I do like my own space. I like to just block the noise out after a while.
~ John Whaite
I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. I try to keep the noise in front of me.
~ Chris Pronger
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
~ Saina Nehwal
Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Normally in life there are all these distractions but in lockdown all that stuff was gone. You were forced to just sit and think. Creatively, it had its benefits.
~ Arlo Parks
I like to drive everywhere, so I normally like to sing out loud in my car where nobody else can hear me.
~ Sammi Giancola
I am drawn to cold, desolate places rather than Hawaii. I actually love Hawaii too, but I tend to go to Iceland or Norway or Northern Japan - northern places for whatever reason. Which aren't necessarily the best places to tour.
~ Phil Elverum
I'm not interested in the limelight.
~ Catherine Ashton
I'm not interested in people being interested in me.
~ Y'lan Noel
I have a family who are desperately not interested in sharing their life with the world.
~ Michael Ball
I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
~ Robert Wilson
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.
~ Simon Pegg